Opera Unite reinvents the Web — Cloud computing and Web-based applications will never be the same — Opera today unveiled Opera Unite, a new technology that shakes up the old client-server computing model of the Web. Opera Unite turns any computer into both a client and a server …

Taking the Web into our own hands, one computer at a time — My name is Lawrence Eng, and, as a product analyst for Opera Software, my job is to understand our users and what they need, so we can serve them better. Today, I will share my thoughts on Opera Unite, a new Opera technology that I'm extremely excited about.

Down Time Rescheduled — A critical network upgrade must be performed to ensure continued operation of Twitter. In coordination with Twitter, our network host had planned this upgrade for tonight. However, our network partners at NTT America recognize the role Twitter is currently playing as an important communication tool in Iran.

Social Networks Spread Iranian Defiance Online — As the embattled government of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad appears to be trying to limit Internet access and communications in Iran, new kinds of social media are challenging those traditional levers of state media control and allowing Iranians …

Microsoft Sues Three in Click-Fraud Scheme — AFTER an investigation that took more than a year, Microsoft has filed its first lawsuit over click fraud, where people manipulate clicks on a Web advertisement. — Microsoft filed the civil complaint on Monday in United States District Court …

Dasient: Ex-Googler's Launch Website Security as a Service — Ever come across a Google search result that has the words ‘this site can harm your computer’ below a link? What about the Firefox red screen of death? If you're a Web surfer, chances are you've likely avoided clicking on this type of link.

Android to replace Garmin-Asus' current Linux platform — The Garmin-Asus nuvifone G60 (left) and M20 (right). — At CommunicAsia today, Garmin-Asus showed off its nuvifone G60 and M20 devices. The former was first developed independently by Garmin and later rebadged with the new brand name …

The now official Olympus E-P1 digital pen does retro right — Well, it's here: The Olympus E-P1 Micro Four Thirds digital camera. The E-P1, or digital pen, packs in almost all the E-620's magic into an absolute tiny and gorgeous body. A body that throws-back to the the late 50's when Olympus launched the first Pen camera.

Chat reaches 1 billion messages sent per day — Facebook Chat usage has increased steadily since its launch last year, and this week we reached 1 billion messages sent per day. As a team we've been looking forward to this milestone; we track lots of statistics in the course of maintaining …

Iran using U.S. chip technology in rocket research — Chipmaker AMD says it will notify U.S. government of Iran's claims of Opteron use — Computerworld - An Iranian research institute claims it used Advanced Micro Devices Inc. Opteron microprocessors to build a high computing performance system.

Why Oracle Wants Solaris — With its future apparently secure, the benefits of Sun's operating system become compelling. — Oracle praised the Solaris operating system when it agreed to acquire its creator, Sun Microsystems, but the actual beauty of this fine piece of engineering was left unexplained.

Apple could see margins at risk with new price cuts — Lower prices for Mac laptops and the 3G iPhone could hit profitability — SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) - It's no secret that products for Apple Inc. have historically come with higher price tags than those of its rivals …

PageRank sculpting — People think about PageRank in lots of different ways. People have compared PageRank to a “random surfer” model in which PageRank is the probability that a random surfer clicking on links lands on a page. Other people think of the web as an link matrix in which the value at position …

Weird Al takes on Craigslist with The Doors — Geek humor abounds. — Parody singer “Weird Al” Yankovic poked fun at Segway riders three years ago with his rap song “White and Nerdy.” — His latest single “Craigslist” skewers the people who can be found swapping wares and scoring dates on the classifieds ads site.

How The Recording Industry Changes Its Own Story — We've already discussed how silly the Performance Rights Act is — and how it's basically an attempt by the record labels to get their own bailout courtesy of radio stations. There are all sorts of problems with it, and Jess Walker does …

Facebook Surge - The Gen X/Gen Y Tradeoff — Robin Goad, our UK Research Director wrote about the surge in traffic to Facebook in the UK in response to the premier this weekend of personalized or vanity usernames. Here's a daily chart of Facebook's U.S. marketshare:

How Are You? No, How Are You Really? — I recently met an acquaintance from college, Chris Costello, whom I hadn't seen in 17 years. We weren't that close in college, but we kept up sporadically through e-mail. In more recent years, we updated each other on our lives through Facebook and Twitter.

The internet is as vital as water and gas — Every home will have broadband access as we aim for a digital Britain fit to take on the world — The digital revolution is changing all our lives beyond recognition and today we shall set out how Britain must change with it.